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Dr Zuria Alberto is the focal point for the Mobile Brigade from DPS Mueda (Provincial Directorate of Health). She works to make sure that the clinic is on the road as much as possible able to reach remote communities. May 2023.

From January 2025, guidelines, norms and standards, manuals, policy briefs and more resources on maternal and newborn health will be available in a new library from WHO.

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The Midwifery Accelerator: Expanding health care for women and newborns

Investing in midwives is a cost-effective and sustainable strategy to improve maternal and newborn health and well-being and reduce mortality. There is ample evidence to show that care provided by midwives is women centric, significantly advances maternal and newborn health outcomes, strengthens health systems, and helps build future healthier generations.

The Midwifery Accelerator: Expanding Quality Care for Women and Newborns —developed in consultation with governments, global experts, UN agencies, civil society, and providers—calls on governments, funders and other stakeholders to invest in midwifery care to save and transform the lives of women and their newborns around the world.

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Trends in maternal mortality estimates 2000 to 2023: estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division

This report presents internationally comparable global-, regional- and country-level estimates and trends for maternal mortality between 2000 and 2023. A total of 195 countries and territories met the criteria to be included the data analyses and in the results presented in this report. This is the second report to present estimates and trends for maternal mortality for years that fall within the SDG reporting period, covering the first eight years of the 15-year period, from the start of 2016 until the end of 2023.

Levels and trends in child mortality, 2024

Since 2000, the global under-five mortality rate has declined by 528 per cent, reflecting an immense collective effort by governments, donors and communities. This progress represents millions of lives saved – children who have had the chance to grow, learn and contribute to their communities and society as a whole.

Nevertheless, the most recent estimates on under-five mortality leave little doubt that the journey to ending all preventable child deaths is far from over. In 2023 alone, 4.8 (4.5– 5.3)9 million children died before reaching their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable causes.

This report by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation provides the latest data and trends on child mortality. It calls on governement, donors and partners for greater political will to end preventable child mortality.

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Standing up for stillbirths: current estimates and key interventions

Every day, more than 5,000 women around the world endure the heartbreaking experience of stillbirth. Most stillbirths are preventable when women have access to timely, high-quality care during pregnancy and childbirth. And when a stillbirth does occur, there are many measures health care practitioners can take to support affected women and their families through compassionate care and accurate documentation of the event. This report by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation provides the latest data and trends on stillborth worldwide. It calls on governement, donors and partners to prevent, honour and count every stillborn baby.

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Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response: global report on decade of implementation

This report describes progress on strengthening maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) for the period 2016-2024. It describes improvements in policies, implementation and tracking of MPDSR implementation, and highlights how MPDSR can be successful in various contexts, such as humanitarian and fragile settings. Eight country case studies highlight examples of addressing barriers to MPDSR implementation.

The rerport is a follow up to the WHO and UNFPA Time to respond: a report on the global implementation of
maternal death surveillance and response, published in 2016.

Evaluating the Quality of Care Network

From 2019-2023, UCL led a research project with many partners evaluating the Quality of Care Network. The results have been presented at various Quality of Care Network-related meetings in the past couple of years. The final collection of peer reviewed papers have been published with commentaries as a collection in PLOS Global Public Health this month. Our collection of studies focuses on four diverse case study network countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda. The collection includes papers on network emergencelegitimacyeffectivenessconfigurations and interactionstheory of changeindividual, organisational and system circumstances, innovation, learning and sharing, and sustainability. It also reflect on our experiences evaluating the Quality of Care Network

Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere Results Framework, 2022-2025

The Results Framework for EWENE, detailing deliverables for each of the ten milestones: Policy and plans, Investment, Response and Resilience, Quality of care, Health workforce, Medical commodities and devices, Data for Action, Equity, Accountability, Research/innovation/knowledge exchange.

Presentation made during the World Prematurity Day 2024 webinar

Together to prevent and manage premature births

Six years to the SDG deadline: Six actions to reduce unacceptably high maternal, newborn and child deaths and stillbirths

A two-pager published by ENAP EPMM and Child Survival Action ahead of the World Health Assembly 2024.

Engaging the private sector in delivering quality maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services: A step by step workbook to inform analysis and policy dialogue